All the staff at What.cd would like to wish you all a very happy new year. To start the year off right here is a round of staff picks for you to enjoy:

What - Morphine - Cure for pain
Genre: Alternative Rock
V0: /details.php?id=36784
FLAC: /details.php?id=119244
Why I picked it: Morphine is a lesser-known alternative rock band. They have a very stripped-down, relaxed sound that results from the fact that the band doesn't include a guitarist - only a bassist/vocalist, drummer, and saxophone player.
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Borbus- Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds
Genre: Progressive rock
V0: /details.php?id=34413
FLAC: /details.php?id=122146
And now DTS 5.1: /details.php?id=121910

If you have a 5.1 system I highly recommend the 5.1 mix.
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Emm - The Delgados - The Great Eastern
Genre - Indie Rock
320: /details.php?id=35266
FLAC: /details.php?id=123026
Why I picked it: I can't say it any better than this: "The Delgados are precisely what you'd expect from a Scottish band named after Spanish cycling champion Pedro Delgado: brilliant, mercurial, fiercely independent, and more than a bit eccentric. On the quartet's third album, The Great Eastern, they explore symphonic pop in a glorious sweep of sound that recalls the Flaming Lips or Lambchop more than Scottish twee-pop peers Belle & Sebastian. Co-leaders Emma Pollock and Alun Woodwar
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dblaze - Harvey Danger- Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?
Genre: Alternative rock/Emo
V0: /details.php?id=46360
FLAC: /details.php?id=94535
Why I picked it:The 1997 debut album from Harvey Danger. Remember how music was aweome in the 90s? No? Well, sit right down sonny and let me play you something from what we used to call a CD, that's fancy-talk for Compact Disc. No victims of the loudness wars, no American Idol manufactured garbage 'artists'... just honest-to-goodness, stick-to-your-ribs bands that clawed their way into our awareness. "...Like a zero drowning in a sea of higher numbers..." I mean, come on, those lyrics kick ass.
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Kludge - Archive - Lights
Genre: Trip-Hop
V0: /details.php?id=32632
FLAC: /details.php?id=100953
Why I picked it: My favourite album of 2006. Very different in style to anything else i've heard in the genre, these guys are absolutely amazing, and i've not found a track of theirs that i dislike (doesn't happen at all often for me!)
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MattieTK - Moving Mountains - Pneuma
Genre: Rock/Alt/Emo
V0: /details.php?id=11918
FLAC: /details.php?id=60572
Why I picked it: Easily the best album of 2007. These guys are unsigned and have just produced one of the most flawless and well mastered albums I have ever heard - they need the audience they deserve. A love or hate thing, these guys redefine the genre - introducing trombones and bells into this mash of emotional and heartfelt lyrics coupled with an epic tune. Download this if it's the last thing you do of 2007 - if you like any of the genres featured it will quite literally blow your mind.
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Stewy - DCP - Week of 12-26-2007
Genre: Comic
/details.php?id=120301
Why I picked it: We have a great comic selection here that many users are missing out on. This pack gives you a taste of everything. Try it out!
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Becky's 'VIP pick' - Ayumi Hamasaki - I Am
Genre: J-Pop
V0: /details.php?id=122671
FLAC: /details.php?id=112634
Why I picked it: Why? Ayumi is up there with some of the most powerful female vocalists I've heard, especially in her more dramatic pieces, a few of which are in this album as you would find out. She's also a very nice "starter" artist for a user who might be curious into the Asian, specifically pop genre, but some might be find her voice a bit tinny at times. This album also flows very well, with each song seeming to connect in some way - if I'm not paying attention I wouldn't even realize we'd moved on to a new song. Each song is very different, and yet they all share the same theme. I would say this album has the feel of a 90s pop CD, but her voice and lyrics are a bit too powerful to call it that. This is a very dramatic album, with most of the songs seeming to carry a "powerful" tone behind it. The community might not like it simply because it's very different (foreign), but you never know, you might love the genre without realizing it

The freeleech on these torrents will end Thursday, January 3rd at 8:00 GMT

This should be an ongoing thing, with each staff member picking an album each week.

BTW- Waffles just finished up it's third free leech since opening. Now it's back to normal, and my HD thanks them for this. Uploaded over 113 GB via Comcast, that's wicked insane with their capped 50 k up speeds.

Too many hit 'n runners and bad uploads at What for my taste. I use it occasionally (did download the Morphine) but Waffles is where it's at. As close to OiNK as it can get.

This should be an ongoing thing, with each staff member picking an album each week.

BTW- Waffles just finished up it's third free leech since opening. Now it's back to normal, and my HD thanks them for this. Uploaded over 113 GB via Comcast, that's wicked insane with their capped 50 k up speeds.

Too many hit 'n runners and bad uploads at What for my taste. I use it occasionally (did download the Morphine) but Waffles is where it's at. As close to OiNK as it can get.

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Damn, I still need a waffles invite. I had got my share on Oink up to a freaking 13 when it shut down.

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